LETTER: Hi-tech agrotech

Saturday

Jun 2, 2018 at 6:00 AM

I urge entrepreneurs interested in such a development to contact either Mr. Zukerman or myself.

On May 6, 2018, the OCM published a "Your View" by Mr. A. Zukerman in which he notes that Plymouth’s management does not have proper and balanced development plans, let alone implementation. He also suggested an architecture plan to house 900 people and many stores on a mere 14 acres. The town management did not embrace the plan yet. The objection is that the town needs commercial and industrial development at higher priority than residential including for lower income people. I fully understand the town’s attitude, as well as the entities promoting “Smart Growth.”

So here’s a solution to the problem, providing both the industrial/commercial grounding and the dwellings/services for the employees. Please peek at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/27/inside-europes-biggest-urban-farm, https://agrotech.net, http://www.hortidaily.com/article/41047/CA-(ON)-Double-Diamond-Farms-adds-62-acre-hothouse-facility. Vertical farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming . These are just a limited sampler.

Now imagine one or more 14 acre area(s) of Plymouth each surrounded by several hundred acres of such greenhouses growing food to provide sustenance and health to the whole U.S. northeast. This is a win-win idea for town and its people alike. Agrotech is a boon and boom industry. Plymouth has a harbor, so longer lasting produce can be shipped by sea. Plymouth has an airport, so produce with limited life can be shipped anywhere. Plymouth has roads and railways connecting us to everywhere, making shipping easy. The climate is benign, bad storms rare and not as strong as elsewhere, and the sun shines sufficiently, making the hi-tech agrotech very viable, definitely making us par with Holland. I urge entrepreneurs interested in such a development to contact either Mr. Zukerman or myself.